tye

See also: Tye, tyè, tyɛ́', tyə́', and t'ye

Translingual

Symbol

tye

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Kyenga.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kyenga terms

English

Etymology 1

A variant of tie.

Noun

tye (plural tyes)

1. Obsolete form of tie.
   • 1748, David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding., Section 3. § 6:

     the events or actions, which the writer relates, must be connected together, by some bond or tye

2. (nautical) A chain or rope, one end of which passes through the mast, and is made fast to the center of a yard; the other end is attached to a tackle, by means of which the yard is hoisted or lowered.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English teye (“chest, coffer”), from a combination of Old English tēah and Old French teie (both "chest").

Noun

tye (plural tyes)

1. (mining) A trough for washing ores.
   • 1778, William Pryce, Mineralogia Cornubiensis:

     But if each Ore is of equal gravit , and I apprehend some poor Tin Ore, which they call dry for Metal, may be less ponderous than Copper Ore) if the tye will not separate them, they should be first cleansed […]

Etymology 3

From Old English tīh (“plot of land”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīh. Cognate with Old Frisian ty (“thingstead”), Middle Low German tî, tigge, whence northern German Thie (“old thingstead, village square”).

Noun

tye (plural tyes)

1. (British) A patch of common land, often a village green.

Etymology 4

Verb

tye (third-person singular simple present tyes, present participle tyeing, simple past and past participle tyed)

1. Obsolete form of tie.
   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Gives Some Account of Himself and Family, His First Inducements to Travel. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 20:

     Nine hundred of the ſtrongeſt Men were employed to draw up theſe Cords by many Pulleys faſtned on the Poles, and thus, in leſs than three Hours, I was raiſed and flung into the Engine, and there tyed faſt.

Anagrams

• -ety, ety, tey, yet

Afrikaans

Noun

tye

1. plural of tyd (“time”)
2. plural of ty (“tide”)

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

tye

1. alternative form of teye (“cord, chain”)

Etymology 2

Noun

tye

1. alternative form of teye (“chest, enclosure”)

Etymology 3

Verb

tye

1. alternative form of teyen

Sranan Tongo

Interjection

tye

1. oh